Our conference in 2013 on ‘Trust in Journalism’ was a great success with more than 500 people enjoying the day. Our next annual conference will be on Friday March 28th 2014, and you can sign up for tickets here.

The theme of next year’s conference is Transparency and Accountability. So we will cover everything from whether the Guardian is right to publish the Snowden files to how the UK’s press should be held to account.

It is our fifth conference and #Polis14 will be bigger and better than ever before.

There will be around 50 journalists speaking as well as academics, politicians, lawyers and activists. There will be keynote speeches, conversations and panel debates in the main hall. And we will have two other parallel venues for workshops, debates and presentations on all aspects of transparency and accountability journalism.

We invite anyone with an interest in news media to attend – it’s free and we provide sandwiches and drinks. We hope to have a networking event afterwards, too.

Email us at Polis@lse.ac.uk if you have good ideas for speakers you want to hear.

You can keep up with Polis by following either @CharlieBeckett or @PolisLSE on Twitter or email polis@lse.ac.uk to sign up for our newsletter. We’re also on Facebook and Tumblr

If you would like to be a partner or sponsor of the conference email Marion Koob at polis@lse.ac.uk.